Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Subjects indexed include: history,interdisciplinary studies, popular culture, womens'/gender studies, folklore, and law.
This database will appeal to anyone interested in exploring the contributions, struggles, and issues surrounding North America. It is an essential research tool for anthropologists, educators, historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, legal and medical researchers, linguists, theologians, ethnobotanists, and policy makers.
Monographs titles spanning three and a half centuries of Canadian documentary history. Rich primary materials exploring a wide range of subjects and disciplines. A wide range of dailies, weeklies, specialized journals and mass-market magazines, as well as city directories and annual reports from churches, schools, and corporations.
Historical pre-1920 colonial, provincial and federal government documents.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. The collection focuses on personal accounts through a range of published and unpublished accounts, including narratives, diaries, journals, letters, prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies and photographs.
Primary source documents from the 17th century to the to the early 20th century, covering the regions and colonial frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. Global Commodities provides users with visual resources, such as thematic galleries, data & maps, and a searchable chronology. Includes holdings from The Hudson's Bay Company Archives.
"Indigenous Peoples: North America provides users with a robust, diverse, informative source that will enhance research and increase understanding of the historical experiences, cultural traditions and innovations, and political status of Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Canada."
This guide is a useful starting point for many Indigenous Studies topics. It may also be useful for students taking courses containing substantial Indigenous content that are offered at the University of Regina and its Federated Colleges.
The Informit Indigenous Collection covers both topical and historical issues within Indigenous studies. With material from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, North America and The Pacific, the Informit Indigenous Collection is a platform for Indigenous worldviews.
Includes personal stories, dating from 17th century to present day, and including all regions of North America, with nearly 500 nations represented in all. Includes biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories.
"Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography (Bibliotheca Americana : a dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time), this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's."
